PROGRAM

Quartet Number 1 (1929)
2nd Movement: Andante Moderato
Florence Price (1887-1953)

String Quartet in G Minor, Opus 20, Number 3
1st Movement: Allegro con spirito
2nd Movement: Minuetto: Allegretto 
3rd Movement: Poco adagio
4th Movement: Finale: Allegro di molto
 Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

Woman Holding a Balance (2021)
Anna Clyne (b. 1980)

Testimony (2019)
Charlton Singleton (b. 1971)

NOTES

Price – Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, educated at the New England Conservatory of Music, Florence Smith Price was the first African American to have a symphony played by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. A member of the Chicago Black Renaissance, many of her works were never published in her lifetime. A box of her manuscripts was discovered in a dilapidated house in 2009, and her music has been enjoying posthumous fame ever since. 

Haydn - an Austrian composer, has been credited with creating the modern form of chamber music, bringing to it a conversational style where each instrument participates in playing the melodic line. The first movement opens with a jagged leaping figure, is unique in its frequent stops especially in the development section.  The minuet is unusually serious, paired with a beautiful trio section, returns to the original melody and then ends in a mournful key, marked “perdendosi” (dying away).  The third movement opens with a rising hymn-like figure in the first violin, followed by a contrasting line of sixteenth notes in the cello. The fiery finale has Gypsy undertones and features sudden stops like the first movement – it also has a twittering motif, heard in the first violin part, has the last word in the cello’s lowest register.

Clyne – Grammy nominated Clyne is one of the most in-demand composers today, working with orchestras, choreographers, and visual artists around the world. She was the most performed living female British composer in 2022. Originally from England, Ms. Clyne now lives here in the Hudson Valley. Woman Holding a Balance, written in response to a sculpture called Dutch/Light, follows shifting harmonic colors that reaches a melodic section, before returning to the stillness of the opening music.

Singleton – began studying piano in Awendaw SC at the age of three, then went on to study organ, violin, cello, and trumpet; he received a Bachelor of Arts from South Carolina State University. Singleton is Director of the Charleston Jazz Orchestra, and a member of Ranky Tanky which promotes Gullah music from the Southeastern United States. Singleton spoke about his music “Growing up in the church (my father is a retired African Methodist Episcopal Church pastor) I was surrounded by incredible harmony and rhythm. Testimony is written from my prayer Band experience, and rhythms in African American churches – the ‘Gullah Clap’ (on beats two and four) and the ‘Half Clap’ (on beat one only).”

Concert 10-25-23

Haydn 2

This is a collection of student performed pieces on our 2023 album featuring favorite songs from movies. Thank you to Hal Leonard for your arrangements as well as Chris Tilghman for arranging and performing back tracks. Most of all, thank you to our awesome and hard-working students.

Movie Hits

Bella's Lullaby

Hydrangea

Krzysztof Kobyliński - Grand Piano
Music by Krzysztof Kobyliński
Recording, mixing, mastering: Jazovia, Gliwice, Poland 2022
Recording engineer: Astafiev Eugeniusz
Cover design: Małgorzata Knobloch
Produced by: HH Poland SA

Part 07 Classical Piano Crossovers

Bourrée I (From Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009)

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"When I began composing A Wayward Leaf, it wasn’t about a leaf at all but rather a goldfinch. On a sunny day in June, I was walking through a forest preserve when I spotted a sprite, flittering, silly little goldfinch crossing my path in front of me. He bounced and undulated through the air with flamboyant bravado, and his golden feathers offered an entertaining counterpoint to the brilliant blue sky behind him. I was mesmerized and thought, most assuredly, I would write a piece inspired by him.

A year later, I composed a melody that skipped and bobbled just like that little goldfinch. However, as my writing progressed, the character of the piece slowly changed. Is this really about a goldfinch or is it about something else entirely? I sent the piece to Phil Erklen who showed it to a music student. She offered a title for the piece: A Wayward Leaf. How strange is it that a title so unrelated to the initial inspiration would fit so well? Perhaps a leaf, with its own windswept flight pattern, embodies the memory of the goldfinch perfectly. So, the name stuck.

Thanks to Ed Penner for painting the incredible artwork to go along with it. This piece would be incomplete without your contribution.
I dedicate this piece to my dear friend Herman White for his unconditional love of music and his endless support of its creation. Thank you, Herman, for always being there in the audience, smiling away. This one’s for you."

A Wayward Leaf (2021)

Heigh Ho

好きなメロディを重ねてみました

小さな決断

Also not much of a fan of this one looking back, I mustve been lazy with these.

Remember Me

Dream Of Flying

Part 2 of a collection of 30 piano pieces - this is nos. 11 to 30.
Gentle journeys through imaginative rhythmic and melodic terrain.

Part 07

Krzysztof Kobylinski

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